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TIZZBIRD™ N1
Rev 3.00

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  • Page 1 User’s Manual Smart TV Stick TIZZBIRD™ N1 Rev 3.00...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Theme Setup ........................17 Using Remote Controller............18 The Home Screen (Android Theme) ..........20 10 Start Up and Terminate ............. 22 10.1 Home Screen (Tizzbird Theme) ..................22 10.2 Cover-View Style ......................23 10.3 Movie Browser ........................ 23 10.4 Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off ..............
  • Page 3 22 Firmware Upgrade ..............75 22.1 Online Upgrade (O.T.A – Over the Air Upgrade) ............75 22.2 Local Upgrade ......................... 75 22.2.1 Upgrade at Settings Screen ................... 75 22.2.2 Upgrade at File Browser ....................76 23 Using N1 as a Mass Storage ............77...

  • Page 4: Safety Notice

    1 Safety Notice Do not try to disassemble the unit. It may cause malfunction or fire. Keep away the unit from magnetized devices. It may erase the data stored in the HDD drive inside. Do not place the unit in places that are exposed to oil, water, dust, humidity, rain or wind.

  • Page 5: Features

    2 Features Tizzbird N1 is so small that let you install it directly to HDMI port of any TV. The power will be supplied by USB port of TV, so no need to install another power adapter. Tizzbird playbacks various full HD movie contents including DVD backup formats as well as AVI, MKV, XVID and TS formats on TV.

  • Page 6: Specifications

    3 Specifications Model TizzBird Stick N1 System TCC8925 Cortex-A5 800Mhz CPU/ 256KB L2 Cache 512M Memory(N1M model)/ 1GB Memory(N1G model)/ 4GB T-flash Booting time from stand-by is less than three seconds. Android Rev 4.0 Ice cream sandwich Video Format: AVI/ MKV/ MPG/ WMV/ VOB/ TP/ TRP/ M2TS/ MOV/ FLV/ IFO/ Codec: MPEG 1/2/4, H264, XVID, WMV9(MP@HL4.1) VC-1(AP@L3)

  • Page 7: Description Of Each Part

    4 Description of Each Part Micro USB port HDMI port To connect power and IR receiver To connect TV. cable Connectors Please connect the unit to HDMI port of the TV. Please connect the FLASH DRIVE, MOUSE or KEYBOARD on the USB host port. Please connect MOUSE or KEYBOARD on the USB OTG port.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    5 Package Contents The TizzBird package contains the following items. The shape of items described below may slightly different from the actual contents. Remote Main Unit Power Adapter Controller Y-Cable Quick Guide...

  • Page 9: Installation And Connection

    6 Installation and Connection Connecting to TV The TizzBird supports HDMI audio and video output for connection to a TV. Connection to HDMI Out Power Cable Connection Connect the TizzBird N1 Connect the power cable of HDMI to your TV. HDMI can...
  • Page 10 Connecting to AV Receiver Tizzbird N1 can be connected to HDMI input AV receiver. Please select the appropriate input at the audio receiver using remote controller after connection. Connection to AV Receiver Connect the Tizzbird N1 HDMI to your AV receivers’ HDMI input.

  • Page 11: Connecting Usb Device

    Connecting USB Device TizzBird provides two USB 2.0 host ports to connect various external devices, such as FLASH MEMORY drive, external USB HDD enclosure, digital camera/camcorder, keyboard & mouse, or USB video-cam & microphone. Caution!!  To connect any external 2.5”...

  • Page 12: Initial Setup Wizard

    7 Initial Setup Wizard Initial setup consists of 6 steps of WIZARD style sequences. The sequence of WIZARD will be LANGUAGE SETUP  VIDEO OUTPUT SETUP SCREEN FITTING  NETWORK SETUP  TIME&WEATHER SETUP  THEME SETUP The PREV/ NEXT button on the top side of each screen will bring the PREV/ NEXT step 1) Language Setup The first step is setup the menu language.

  • Page 13: Video Output Setup

    2) Video Output Setup The video resolution selection screen will appear as above. Please select the appropriate video output for the display. If you select, the pop-up will ask you keep resolution change or not. If the pop-up screen will appear, please select “Keep It”.

  • Page 14: Screen Fitting Setup

    3) Screen Fitting Setup The 3 step is fitting the screen size according to user’s TV. Clicking UP/DOWN button at left-bottom side will increase/ decrease the screen size accordingly. Press OK when done. 4) Network Setup The 4th step is setting up network. Wi-Fi can be configured here. If Wi-Fi button were pressed, the following screen will enumerate all available Wi-Fi AP.
  • Page 15 The next page screen will pop up to configure the Wi-Fi. Typing the password will finalize the Wi-Fi setup and Internet connection will be made.

  • Page 16: Time Zone & Weather Location Setup

    5) Time Zone & Weather Location Setup The next step is setting up time zone and weather location. Tizzbird provides automatic setup for those as long as network is connected. To setup the time-zone, select the Time- Zone button as above screen. Then select “AUTO” if Internet is connected. Otherwise, you can manually input the time-zone.

  • Page 17: Theme Setup

    6) Theme Setup The final step is setting up theme. Tizzbird N1 provides two type of theme, one is the Android theme, the other is Tizzbird classic theme. If you are familiar with smart phone user interface, please choose “Android”. If you are more familiar with multimedia player, then...

  • Page 18: Using Remote Controller

    8 Using Remote Controller...

  • Page 20: The Home Screen (Android Theme)

    9 The Home Screen (Android Theme) The HOME SCREEN is very similar with smart phone. The APPs can be located at the surface of HOME SCREEN freely, while the specific browsers like MOVIE/ MUSIC/ PHOTO/ FILE/ WEB/ APP browser will stick as icons at the bottom side of HOME SCREEN. The several WIDGETs will help the user navigate thru the screen.
  • Page 21 CONTROL WIDGET lets users control the SCREEN and VOLUME by MOUSE. CONTROL WIDGET cannot be accessible by REMOTE. It’s because one of the nature of Android. It’s only accessible by MOUSE. The same functional buttons are on the remote already. Please use them. Power Back Home...

  • Page 22: Start Up And Terminate

    Music Movie The default selection would be MOVIE BROWSER at first start-up. TizzBird is the unique unit compared to other units, since it retains consistent user-interface based on the powerful database feature of Android OS. TizzBird provides full featured cover-view and imaged oriented browsing, which is highly intuitive.

  • Page 23: Cover-View Style

    10.2 Cover-View Style TizzBird provides Open-GL 3D based Cover-View user interface. But unlike F20 and F30, N1 only provides the fixed mode of Cover-View style at each mode. 10.3 Movie Browser Movie browser will scan movie files on the devices when booting first or attaching external device thru USB.

  • Page 24: Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off

    10.4 Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off <POWER> To turn off the power, press button on the remote or press power key on the front panel. The unit will be in “STAND-BY” status. Press power button on remote control more than 1 second will bring up the following POWER-OFF DIALOG BOX.

  • Page 25: Watching Movie

    11 Watching Movie 11.1 Movie Browser If MOVIE BROWSER is selected and if the posters were already scraped or registered for movies, then the following screen will appear. This screen is called “MOVIE BROWSER” screen. Up to 15 movies can be browsed at once per page. Arrow keys can be used to navigate thru posters.

  • Page 26: Selecting Device

    The control widget bar will appear to control the overall behavior of the browser. 11.3 Selecting Device The attached device can be selected by RED color button on the remote, like below picture. This kind of device selection can be also available at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. [Device Selection] Selecting DATABASE will scan all the movie files on every device and show them.

  • Page 27: Movie Browser Menu

    11.4 Movie Browser Menu <MENU> button at “MOVIE BROWSER” can be used to do various actions including searching movies, scraping movie posters, jumping based on bookmarks & resuming lists. <MENU> Press button on the remote. “SEARCH” menu like above picture lets you search the movie quickly based on the title names and other information.

  • Page 28: To Add Movie Poster

    11.5 To Add Movie Poster Movie posters should be added to make fancy movie browser like following screen. TizzBird has built-in poster downloader inside called <SCRAPER> which means scraping the movie information from network. Network should be connected before scraping movie posters.
  • Page 29 The following screen will appear when start scraping. The scraping will be performed based on the file name, so there can be a chance the file name is not correct or not good enough. In this case, scraping can be tried again on the same file.

  • Page 30: Synopsis Screen

    11.6 Synopsis Screen The scraping consists of two steps. One is getting the movie poster, the other is getting the filmography including synopsis of the movie. If scraping is successful, the following screen will come out as a next when the poster is selected. It shows a synopsis, running time, release year, genre, director and actors.

  • Page 31: Resume And Bookmark

    11.7 Resume and Bookmark TizzBird provides RESUME function to the last playback position of movie, so it’s not <MENU> necessary to search it again manually. Press button at MOVIE BROWSER and select <RESUME> menu to pop-up the resuming list. The resume list will appear like following image.

  • Page 32: Movie Playback Menu

    BLUE color button: Select video parameters and 3D movie types.  YELLOW color button: Show movie playback information.  TizzBird provides various control functions during movie playback. These functions include <TIME/CHAPTER SEARCH>, <INFO>, <SUBTITLE>, <AUDIO> and <VIDEO> settings. Most of functions can be activated by pressing <MENU>...

  • Page 33: Playback Speed Control

    11.9 Playback Speed Control TizzBird provides various playback speeds and skip controls during playback including PAUSE/ FAST-FORWARD/ REWIND/ PREVIOUS/ NEXT. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to play or pause the playback. Press <PREV> or <NEXT> button to skip to previous or next chapter.

  • Page 34: Playback Information Menu

    11.11 Playback Information Menu Select <INFO> image at movie playback menu to confirm the movie playback information. Select <INFO> image. The movie information and current playback position will appear like following image. 11.12 Subtitle Menu Select <SUBTITLE> image at movie playback menu to control the subtitle language, position, size, sync and font Select <SUBTITLE>...

  • Page 35: Video Parameter Menu

    11.15 Playback 3D Format Movies TizzBird supports 3D files, if 3D display is available. The supported formats are SIDE-BY- SIDE and TOP-AND-BOTTOM. If file name contains 3D and SBS (or TNB) string, then it will turn TV into 3D mode automatically.

  • Page 36: Movie Playback Controller

    11.17 Movie Playback Controller The MOVIE PLAYBACK screen was changed as well to support the MOUSE. The LEFT CLICK MOUSE CONTROLLER will pop up when button. Minimize button Mute button + Menu Playback Volume Bar buttons control buttons Scrollbar Click to move position MENU BUTTON group consists of several menu buttons.

  • Page 37: Listening Music

    Listening Music 12.1 Music Browser The following MUSIC BROWSER screen will appear if music files contain the album art at their tags. Press <LEFT> <RIGHT> keys to move each direction. Keep pressing arrow keys to browsing continuously. The album-art screen will keep changing. <MENU>...

  • Page 38: Sorting Music

    Music files at large capacity hard drive need to be sorted since it’s easy to organize and search. TizzBird provides various “SORTING” functions based on the powerful Android database. Press GREEN color button on remote to sort by ALBUM, ARTIST, TITLE or YEAR.

  • Page 39: Watching Photo

    Watching Photo 13.1 Photo Browser The following PHOTO BROWSER screen will appear when selecting PHOTO BROWSER. It’s composed of superb folder thumbnails COVER-VIEW which is quite neat and intuitive. Each image shows thumbnails of photos that folder contains. 13.2 Photo Browsing Menu <MENU>...

  • Page 40: Photo Playback Screen

    13.4 Photo Playback Screen Photo slide show will start automatically, so next photos will keep appearing with transition effect. The various TRANSITION EFFECTS can be configured at <SETTINGS BROWSER>  <PHOTO>. 13.5 Slideshow Control Slideshow can be controlled by arrow and <PLAY/PAUSE> buttons. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to pause or resume to playback.

  • Page 41: Posters, Album Art And Photo Arrangements

    14 Posters, Album Art and Photo Arrangements The arrangement of each browser and shape of each item can be configured at each browser. For example, you can change the number of items of movie browsers and shape of posters. Press <Menu> button on the remote at Movie Browser. The <Movie Settings> Menu was added to configure the movie browser directly.
  • Page 42 Mode> and <Browser Item Mode>. You can configure layouts of browsers at <Browser Mode> and configure shape of each item at <Browser Shape Mode>. For example, the <Browser Item Mode> will bring you the following screen to configure the border type, border alpha value, width, radius and item alpha.
  • Page 43 This kind of configuration is also possible at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. Please notice the following screen-shots.
  • Page 44 For example, configure 6x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this music browser. Here’s the photo setting:...
  • Page 46 For example, configure 7x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this photo browser.

  • Page 47: Using File Browser

    Using File Browser 15.1 File Browser Screen The following screen will appear when selecting FILE BROWSER. This is quite similar browser user interface that legacy media players provided before. Folder or file based browsing is possible on this browser, and selecting and playback the file directly. The left pane is FOLDER PANE, and the right pane is FILE PANE.

  • Page 48: Selecting Device At File Browser

    - .TTF extension) to the USB drive or internal HDD from PC, then connect the drive to TizzBird. Press <RED> button to select drive and navigate into the folder that font file was copied. The font file will appear like the following image.

  • Page 49: Using File Operation

    15.4 Using File Operation Rev 1.12 firmware provides the “File Operation” capability which enables COPY, MOVE, DELETE, RENAME and NEW FOLDER functions. Press “MENU” button on the remote then select the “File Operation” ICON at the pop-up window to enter this mode. This will bring the following screen.
  • Page 50 Pressing BOOKMARK button will check the selected item like below picture. The check icon will appear on the small box at left side of item. The total size of selected item will be also calculated whenever BOOKMARK button is pressed. It will take some time if there are many items at selected folder. Pressing MENU button will bring the following POP-UP menu to select the function.

  • Page 51: Connecting Internet

    Connecting Internet 16.1 Execute Internet Browser Web browser will appear if WEB BROWSER was selected at HOME SCREEN and network was connected like following image. ※ Using mouse is highly recommended at WEB BROWSING. Wireless RF or USB mouse can be used. Web address or other information can be entered thru virtual keyboard with mouse.

  • Page 52: Install And Execute Application

    17 Install and Execute Application 17.1 Move applications at Android Phone to TizzBird The applications on the Android smart phone can be installed on this unit. The procedures are like this. 1) Download or move the applications on the Android smart phone at USB flash drive.

  • Page 53: Settings

    18 Settings Various set-ups can be configured at SETTINGS BROWSER. 18.1 System Menu language, date & time, system information, firmware information and update can be set-up at this menu. Language  Select menu language. Press <OK> to bring the pop-up. Time &...
  • Page 54 Setup the TizzRemote by QR code and setup the System name for TizzRemote searching. The TizzRemote™ is the remote application for TizzBird which can replace keyboard, mouse and keyboard. There are two methods to install the TizzRemote™. The TizzRemote™ itself is already on the Google Market, so you can directly download it at your smart phone.
  • Page 55 TizzRemote™ APP will be automatically download and installed on your smart phone. External Kbd Layout  Select between QWERTY or AZERTY type key board. System Theme  Select launcher between TizzBird theme and Android theme Advanced Setting  Show advanced (not for casual use) setting. Device Scanning ...

  • Page 56: Audio And Visual

    18.2 Audio and Visual Video Output  Select video output port. Resolution  Select resolution of the video output. Native Frame Rate  Turn On/Off of original frame rate of the source Cinema Original (24p)  Enable/ Disable cinema frame rate TV Original (1080i 60Hz) ...

  • Page 57: Movie

    18.3 Movie Subtitle Language  Select subtitle language. Subtitle Setting  Select size, position, font, color of subtitle. Please refer 10.10. Resume  Select resume screen pop-up method. “On”  Automatic resume without asking. “Off”  Always startup without resuming. Pop-up ...

  • Page 58: Music

    Poster layout and Poster Shape  Please refer to chapter 15. Advanced setting contains more special settings for movie. Blue Button Mode  Blue color button on remote can be configured “3D mode change” button or “Repeat mode” button. Show Playback Information  Turn on/off the information window when movie start- Continuous Movie Playback ...

  • Page 59: Photo

    18.5 Photo Transition Effect  Select transition effects of slideshow. Slideshow Interval  Select transition interval of slideshow. Slideshow Mode  Select showing order of slideshow. Sort Type  Select sorting type of photos. Order Type  Select ordering type of photos. Photo Frame Layout &...

  • Page 60: Network

    18.6 Network Wi-Fi Connection  Turn On/Off the Wi-Fi connection Wi-Fi Setting  Select Wi-Fi Access Point and configure the SSID and password Network Server …  Please see chapter 20 and 20.1.5 for configuration DLNA  Turn On/Off the DLNA. See chapter 21 for usage of DLNA. YouTube Cache Size ...

  • Page 61: Connecting Network Server Or Nas

    Please download the “ ” server at Internet at the PC. Please visit our WEB-site (http://www.tizzbird.com) to download the TizzNFS program. Please install it after downloading it. The TizzNFS has following features. Runs on Windows™ XP/ Vista/ 7 (both 32 bit and 64bit) ...

  • Page 62: Downloading Other Nfs Server

    19.1.3 Downloading other NFS Server Please download the “freeNFS” or “Allegro” NFS server at Internet at the PC. The “freeNFS” and “Allegro” NFS server was confirmed by TizzBird. The “freeNFS” software can be downloadable at following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenfs/files/FreeNFS.exe/download FreeNFS can be executed without specific installation.

  • Page 63: Connecting Nfs Server At Device

    19.1.5 Connecting NFS Server at Device Select <Settings Browser  Network  Network Server Connection”. This will bring the following dialog box. Up to 4 network servers can be connected at this version, and the number of connectable server will be increased at next version. Please select one of the network drive number then press OK.
  • Page 64 The available NFS servers will appear with names or IP addresses. The “+” sign on the left side of server name means it has exported folders. There can be no “+” sign server which is not exporting the EXPORT NAMES. If PC runs Windows OS, the PC name can also appear like above picture.

  • Page 65: Network Connection Using Samba

    19.2 Network Connection using Samba The following section explains how to connect the shared PC folders or NAS (Network Attached Storage) which runs Samba Server. 19.2.1 Activating PC Share Click right mouse button on the folder which will be shared. Select “Property” then “Sharing”...
  • Page 66 Select “Samba” at dialog box. This will bring the SAMBA BROWSING dialog box like below. If the wanted SAMBA SERVER name is not appeared, please press RED button on remote. The SAMBA server list will appear according to the PC-names or IP address. The “+” sign means it has several shared folders.

  • Page 67: Accessing Network Drive At File/ Media Browser

    If the selected folder requires ACCESS RIGHT to connect it, the following dialog box will pop-up to enter the log-in account information. Input the “User name” and “Password” using virtual keyboard. Please check “Remember account” checkbox to by-pass this log-in procedure at next connection. The connection will be made after pressing “Connect”...

  • Page 68: Using Dlna

    The most important DLNA stack here can be DMR. Because SMART PHONE or TABLET can be used as controller (DMC) and playback can be done on TizzBird. So users can easily browse contents on server or their phones, and see the contents on BIG SCREEN TV.

  • Page 69: Preparation For Dmr

    Preparation for DMR Preparing TizzBird & Access-Point  Prepare TizzBird F12 or N1 for demonstrating DMR with Rev 2.90 or later firmware.  Connect the Wi-Fi or Ethernet with prepared Access-Point. Enable the DLNA at “Settings Browser  Network  DLNA”...

  • Page 70: Sending Smartphone's Contents - Imediashare App

    21.1 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - iMediaShare APP iMediaShare is a good example of DMC, DMS and connects contents to DMR. It has several on-line-site DLNA server examples, which are very good to demonstrate, and some of them are in High-Definition. iMediaShare is also available on iPhone. Execute the iMediaShare APP ...
  • Page 71 “Victoria’s Secret” on-line DLNA server. Click one of the contents. Select the final renderer.  If you click one of the contents, and TizzBird settings are correct, the “RENDERER” selection pane will pop-up. Select “TizzBird DLNA Renderer”. Demonstrating Smart Phone local contents to Tizzbird...
  • Page 72  Select the contents on the SMART PHONE. Select “My Videos” on the menu. Then following screen will pop-up Select one of the movies you want to playback and Tizzbird will start playback. It’s so- called DMR (Digital Media Renderer).

  • Page 73: Sending Smartphone's Contents - Using Twonky App

    21.2 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - Using Twonky APP Twonky is a powerful DLNA app which let you browse overall DLNA server on your local network. It also provides playback controller which is very stable. Run Twonky  Select categories of contents that you want to playback. Then select one of the contents ...
  • Page 74 Designate the renderer. Then the Tizzbird will start playback. ...

  • Page 75: Firmware Upgrade

    22.1 Online Upgrade (O.T.A – Over the Air Upgrade) TizzBird will connect the firmware update server periodically (once a week) and pop-up upgrade prompt window automatically, if new firmware is available. If TizzBird is connected to the network, the upgrade can be performed as following.

  • Page 76: Upgrade At File Browser

    22.2.2 Upgrade at File Browser Copy or move the latest firmware to the root folder of USB flash or HDD drive. Connect the drive to USB port of the unit. Select <FILLE BROWSER> at HOME SCREEN. . Browse the firmware file and press <OK>...

  • Page 77: Using N1 As A Mass Storage

    Android system as an external memory. This SD-card area can be accessible by PC as a USB mass storage device (UMS). So if you have 8G/ 16G/ 32GB version of TizzBird N1, you can use more extra SD card area for storing various multimedia contents.

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